Slow, slow, slow (III) !

J.C.

Have you played with the Firebug add-on for Firefox? I'm just starting to have a go with it, but I'm already finding it pretty amazing. I've just barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

It offers an extraordinary amount of information that you and the team may find useful, if you aren't already utilizing something similar.

Can you specify which GIF files and CSS are coming from another server? Each of the servers in the cluster has all the content.

I am a new one here ,user experienced is fine,No slow connections yet,usually my visit here slow because it has too much cookie active in the history

Phil,

You'd actually be surprised at the "size" requirements for drives in this kind of environment.

Neil

Oh, and thanks must be given to Phil for his oh-so-useful advice. I'm sure the Adobe V.P.'s will be calling a meeting to discuss your recommendations this afternoon.

8/ %D

Here's a GIF animation I made which might shed some light on the load times problems. Even if it doesn't, it's evidence that page-load times are all over the place. The cause for the disparate totals don't seem to be predicated by just one or two elements on the page, but there are a couple that seem to show up several times as delaying the full process. <br /> <br />Each Adobeforums reload was done using the "Command + Shift + R" shortcut, which is supposed to load all content fresh. I'm not sure what the notation about " <b>(XX KB from Cache)</b>" is referring to. I also don't understand why the number of items (XX Requests) to be loaded changed. <br /> <br />The screenshots were taken from the <a href="http://getfirebug.com/" style="color: teal; text-decoration: underline;">Firebug add-on for Firefox</a> while I was parked on this very thread. The thread was displaying the original thread starter post, plus replies 531 through 545. <br /> <br />The screenshots were taken between about 8:20am & 8:50am EST. <br /> <br />One thing I forgot until after I started putting the ImageReady animation together is that I use the AdBlock Plus add-on to block the following two files from loading: <br /> <pre> &lt;blockquote&gt;http://www.adobeforums.com/Images/m/ssi/css/header_css.js <br />http://www.adobeforums.com/css/mac_ns.css&lt;/blockquote&gt; </pre>.But, after I realized this, I disabled AdBlock Plus and allowed them to load. I tried several more "Command + Shift + R" reloads, and it didn't seem to make a difference. Full page-load times still ranged from a low of about 2.8 seconds all the way up to 24.0+ seconds. <br /> <br />Animation can be seen by going to the uploaded file at Pixentral. <br />It's 1224pxW × 408pxH; 855 KB.; 4 second delay between frame changes: <br /> <a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=17oaEWWIQTfBvU1HnPRVrD2CNnZ77" /></a> <img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/17oaEWWIQTfBvU1HnPRVrD2CNnZ77_thumb.gif" border="0" />

All the components should be duplicated on each and every server used. and don't say cout of larger HD Drives.

the Price of Terabyte Drives have come come down dramatically.

You can get a 512k GB Hard drive now for the same price you could get 50 mb hard drive back when the 7100/66 was out I know Because I spent big buck for such a drive when OS 7.5.2 came out (first OS to operate on the New Power PC Chip. And as Big a company as Adobe is, would just be pocket change.

> and stop complaining

Like that will ever happen.

:)

So are a lot of the little GIFs (and the CSS).

I am sure they really don't care any more.

Here's a hint for the programmers: The favicon in the address bar is taking forever to load. I understand that sucker is on another server.